Travel Blogs from Carthage

... boys really enjoyed the book as well and will hopefully read the series too! Clare seemed to have a great third birthday and crashed right to sleep that night!

After getting everyone settled into bed Aimee had a quiet moment to walk around the homestead and through the fields and thought about this amazing place we were staying. There was a tower you could climb to see all their ...

... if they didn't come on Sunday or if they came later. Oh she said, they started at 10. Well dang. Should we go try to do it? I wanted to try twisting haysticks,,, ah what the heck we needed to do it all right? So we went back down, they were twisting rope, and grinding wheat, but not twisting haysticks.

We waited about half an hour for the wagon to take us to the school house. It was worth staying for. The woman ...

The drive into South Dakota was easy and greeted with the many lakes in the area. We were there in perfect time to sign into our lodging and get to the pageant. It was an interesting contrast to the one in Walnut Grove. Walnut Grove's was bigger, more cast and audience, longer, much better produced and had special effects. DeSmet's pageant was a direct retelling of "The ...

... Laura” and “Pa, the boy fiddler” play “Oh Susanna” and the sun sets over the prairie, although I’m posting it from the lobby of the Hampton Inn. I'll add pictures later.

Laurel adds: As Sarah said, there were lots of other pilgrims and we saw quite a few who'd been at Walnut Grove the night before and also got trapped in the weather. One woman had been at the campground and they evacuated everyone to ...

I Stopped for gas and lunch in Mitchell (tempted by the Corn Palace) and realized that Carthage SD of "Into the Wild" fame was less than half an hour away. as i drove down the back country roads to get there i started thinking about what about this place kept chris's interest so much... was it the ...